43 Bible Verses about encouragement, examples of

When news of this reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch. When he arrived, and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord, with full purpose of heart;

You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children, exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

In this way Joseph, whom the apostles called Barnabas ("Son of Encouragement" is what it means), who was a native Cyprus,

When the congregation broke up, many of the Jews, and of the devout proselytes, followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked to them, and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

and after preaching the gospel to that town, and winning many converts, they went back to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch, Everywhere they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold to the faith. "It is through many tribulations," they said, "that we must enter into the kingdom of God."

And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many a good counsel.

So Paul and Silas came out of the prison, and went to Lydia's house; and after they had seen the brethren and encouraged them, they left Philippi.

When he wished to cross over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples in Corinth to receive him. On his arrival he mightily helped those who through grace had believed, for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public argument, proving to them from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and, after embracing them, bade them farewell, and started for Macedonia. And when he had passed through those districts and encouraged the disciples in many addresses, he came into Greece where he spent three months.

For I am longing so to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established; that is, that I with you may be encouraged by you, each of us by the other's faith, yours and mine.

Great is my faith in you; great is my cheerful assurance in you. I am filled with comfort; in spite of all my troubles, my heart is overflowing with joy.

But that you also may know my affairs and how I do, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make everything known to you. I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may cheer your hearts.

and most of the brothers in the Lord, made confident in the Lord through my imprisonment, are much emboldened to speak God's message with free and fearless confidence.

I have sent him with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, one of your own number, for this very purpose, to let you know how I am, and to cheer your hearts.

I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith.

I have been comforted, my brothers, in regard to you, in spite of all my distress and affliction over your faith.

But I entreat you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

By Sylvanus, a faithful brother of yours, as I suppose, I have written you briefly, to comfort you, and to testify that this is the true grace of God. In this stand fast.

Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ.

With many other exhortations then John declared the gospel to the people;

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,

I beg you then to imitate my example.

I beg you this, my brothers??ou know the household of Stephanus, that they were the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they devoted themselves to the service of the saints??16 so I want you also to show deference to such, and to every fellow worker, and laborer.

so that now you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest he should be overwhelmed by the excess of his grief. So I beg you to reinstate him in your love.

As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more.

I the more earnestly ask for your prayers, that I may be the more speedily restored to you.

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith. If it is the gift of administration, let us give ourselves to our service. Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

Let each one of us try to make his neighbor happy for his good, unto his upbuilding.

So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.

Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

So comfort one another with these words.

So comfort one another, and try to build one another up, as indeed you are doing.

Do not reprimand an aged man, but continue pleading with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers,

He must hold to the faithful word according to the teaching, so that he may be able both to encourage by sound teaching, and to confute our opponents.

Thus speak, exhort, reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

On the contrary, encourage each other daily, so long as there is a "Today," so that no one of you is hindered by the deceitfulness of sin.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.

A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and lamentation??achel weeping for her children, Inconsolable, because they were no more!

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak. For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?